The son is responsible

"I..." Xue Muji couldn't answer his brother's words, so what could he say, was it his calculation or God's calculation?No matter how the process changes, the result is exactly the same, he is going to leave Pingjiang, and go to Yongdu to be the Minister of Dali Temple, and Xue Muji is just sent by God to add fuel to the flames.

Marquis Pingjiang patted the table vigorously, and his suppressed anger spewed out. Just now in the study, his heart was hanging in the air. This child who usually doesn't talk much, actually refused the regent's request in front of Lu Yu. Pingjiang was invited to be an official in Dali Temple.

"How many lifetimes of blessings have you cultivated to save Lord Lu once? Lord Lu condescended to invite you to Yongdu to be a retainer of his Prince Regent's Palace. Who do you think you are? Ah? He ticked his fingers. No matter how dead you are, you will die." I don’t know, you still dare to disobey him face to face! Do you want to bury Ping Jiang with you, don’t you?” Marquis Ping Jiang scolded angrily.

Xue Huaijiu stood silently, waiting for Xue Muji's answer.

Xue Muji smiled wryly, "Brother, even if I plot against you, it's for your own good."

Xue Muji didn't wait for his brother to speak, so he turned around and left in a hurry. He was also worried. Just now, his father said that being a retainer is different from the adopted son in the previous life?

He pushed the door open and entered the study. Lu Yu was sipping tea with a leisurely posture.

After Xue Muji made obeisance, Lu Yu took out a jade bi from his waist and threw it to him.

It must have been before, when the elder brother was protecting him, the jade bi was lost.Did Lu Yu pick this up?Probably Lu Yu felt that this jade bi was too valuable, not something that his elder brother should have, and thought it was lost by his son.

"Thank you, my lord." Xue Muji put the jade into his arms, stood aside, and didn't speak any more.

"Xue Huaijiu is good to you, I risked my life not to save you." Lu Yu pointed to the empty seat beside the table, motioned Xue Muji to sit down and said.

Xue Muji was not polite, and after sitting down, he made himself a cup of tea.

Lu Yu continued, "You treated him well. His birth was unlucky. Over the years, he has been protected by you to become what he is today. This assassination is also thanks to you, so I... am safe and sound."

"My lord has something to say, you might as well say it directly." Xue Muji sincerely didn't want to have anything to do with Lu Yu.

"Son of Pingjiang, I promise you that as long as Emperor Jialin is still on the throne, the Marquis of Pingjiang will still be the master of the Pingjiang River Basin, and the imperial power of Yongdu will never interfere in the slightest. And you, go and persuade your brother to follow me back to Yong Both. As for the reason... I have a relationship with his mother, and you know how the people in the Pingjiang Marquis Mansion think of him. This time, I will take him out of the Pingjiang Marquis Mansion." Lu Yu seemed to have known that Xue Muji would Put forward this condition, Xu Xu said.

Xue Muji smiled unabated, and said, "My lord, I also have something to say, my conditions, in addition to what you promised me, there is one more."

"Oh?" Lu Yu took a sip of tea, "Xue Muji, people who dare to make terms with me are rare, and I want to listen."

"I don't need to go into the details of the reason why you want to take your elder brother away. You once had a close relationship with the third uncle. Perhaps as you said, you were involved with the biological mother of the fourth elder brother. The elder brother is the most precious treasure in this world. I Let him give it to you, I am negotiating conditions with you, just because it is a great thing for the fourth brother to go north with you to Yongdu. It is a shortcut to win your favor. A man's ambition, he should make great achievements and be famous as a general Chen, the Pingjiang Marquis Mansion can't give him these things. However, there are too many faults in Yongdu. I don't want my brother to get involved. I just hope that he can have a chance to display his talents and do what he wants to do instead of being entangled in the world. See His face is full of people, and his hands are tied. Can the prince give me a guarantee? Can you guarantee that my brother will not be involved in the right and wrong of fighting for fame and fortune?"

Lu Yu's eyes flickered, but he did not answer immediately.

Xue Muji said, "If you promise me this matter, I will persuade my brother to go north with you to Yongdu. Prince Lu, you also hope that brother will go to Yongdu willingly?"

If it was God's will, Lu Yu would definitely agree to him.

Xue Muji looked indifferent on the surface, but was extremely anxious in his heart, but Prince Lu thought for a long time before smiling slightly, ready to answer him.

"I can't guarantee it." Lu Yu twirled the jade ring with his fingers, and said slowly, "The officialdom is like a pond, and being in the pond will be somewhat stained with mud. If I want to reuse him and see him grow into a talent in the future, For me, the pillar and pillar of the Dajing Dynasty, I am alone, as a bystander, allowing him to take risks, and will never intervene and protect him at every turn. The so-called experience requires stepping on thorns. Xue Muji, I want to ask you instead, what do you think? What kind of person does Xue Huaijiu become? A concubine elder brother who will always be protected by you, appreciate your kindness, and cannot be separated from you for the rest of his life, or a pillar of the court who can bring you unprecedented glory to Pingjiang?"

Xue Muji had nothing to say.

Lu Yu saw through his selfishness, he always thought of the former from the beginning to the end.Can't let go of everything, want to control everything, and then blame God for the reason.

This son, what he did was quite incompetent.

Xue Muji finally made up his mind, stood up slowly, and said, "I will persuade Fourth Brother to go with you, to be your servant, and to be at your side."

"Xue Muji, if your persuasion is effective, I would like to mention to your father and second uncle. I hope Xue Huaijiu can follow my surname and be my adopted son. I didn't want to do this, after all, the Prince Regent's House is notorious. , implicating him. But I thought about it just now, what you said is somewhat reasonable, indeed, as a concubine of the Xue family, he has no foundation, and it is difficult for him to do anything in the court of Yongdu." Lu Yu said When Xue Muji was about to go out, he threw such a sentence.

Hey? ? ?

Xue Muji suddenly felt like laughing. Is he... unknowingly bringing history back to the original track?

Forget it, whether it's a retainer or a adopted son, in short, he will be the Minister of Dali Temple in the future.

Xue Muji went back to the study, except for Lord Hou and his wife, everyone was sent away.Xue Muji shared the general situation with the two of them, and Lord Xue Hou frowned, "Yezi? Lord Lu really said that?"

Xue Muji expressed his affirmation and asked, "Does father know that when Prince Lu was young, Crown Prince Jiayu and Princess Qi'an were invited by the third uncle to visit Pingjiang together?"

Master Xue Hou nodded, "Before the third brother died, he mentioned it to me. Lord Lu told you that he had an old friendship with the fourth brother's mother, and he probably met at that time. Could it be that Jiu'er is his relative?" son……"

"No, no, no... Dad, you're thinking too much..." Xue Muji is very sure about this. After all, according to Lu Yu's aesthetic standards, a woman of the level of Miss Xiao's maid is definitely not the type he can fancy .As for what the old friendship was, no one knew about it except for the few people back then.

He also finally understood that it turned out that it was the same in the previous life. The fourth brother was brought back to Yongdu by Lu Yu because of the reasons of the previous generation, not because of some life-saving grace.

Xue Muji went to the fourth brother's Changxin Courtyard. Seeing Xue Muji, the parrot in the Changxin Courtyard immediately flapped its wings and shouted, "Help! Help! Help me!"

The parrot was the one given to him by Xue Huaidi when he was a child, and now it is fat and big, and its coat color is brighter.Originally raised in his yard, he was dying to be plucked all day long. When he saw it, he called "Help!" The shadow of Xue Muji's torment.

Xue Mu ignored him very much, there was a figure in the room, and seeing him coming, the figure closed the window.

Ugh.

Xue Muji leaned against the window and knocked, "Brother, do you know what I'm here for?"

There was no echo from inside.

"Brother, it would be great for you to go to Yongdu. Lu Yu still wants to recognize you as his adopted son. He has no son, and his wife has been dead for almost ten years. His daughter married to the Shen family. Think about it, if you did His adopted son will be the eldest son of the Prince Regent's House in the future, and you will inherit everything about him. This is a pie from the sky, don't be too heavy!"

There was still no reply, but Xue Muji vaguely heard footsteps approaching the window.Pasting the paper through the window, he saw a faint shadow.The elder brother was also leaning against the window, and the two of them were very close through the window.

It's very close, but I can't see it.

"Brother, Lu Yu is a very persistent person. You see, Crown Prince Jiayu has been dead for so many years, and he is still looking for evidence to reverse the case for him. There are also new policies, most of which were left by the East Palace back then. Just look at this time." , he wants to take you away, you agree, it’s best, everyone’s happy, you don’t agree, you think he will let you go? No, he will find a rope to tie you away before he leaves. Not sure, Ping Jianghou The mansion will also be implicated. Brother, you once said that you will protect me and the Pingjianghou mansion."

It was very quiet in the window, and there was no answer.Xue Muji suddenly opened the window, and made a face at his elder brother who was standing by the window, "Do you remember what was the first gift you gave me as a gift? You couldn't afford anything at that time, so you gave me a sentence Do you remember?"

Xue Huaijiu turned his face to one side.

"Brother, do you remember?"

Xue Huaijiu remembered very clearly, climbing to the roof with Xue Muji, looking at the sky full of stars, and then Xue Muji pestered him for a birthday gift.

He couldn't send anything decent at that time, so he answered Xue Mujizhen's nagging question, promising Xue Muji: "The sun, the moon and the stars are a guide, no matter when, where, what happens, what is the principle, what is the moral, He'll be on the side you want him to be."

He will be whatever the prince wants him to be.

At that time they were still young, Xue Muji always said intentionally or unintentionally that he would be a high official in the future, and kept asking him if he would stand by the Pingjiang Houfu.

He was very strange at that time, why the prince always asked him that.No matter how sorry the people in the Pingjiang Hou Mansion were, it was also his home, so why didn't he stand by his relatives?

He really thought about it very seriously, if he becomes a high official in the future, he can stand shoulder to shoulder with the son, share his worries, and be the elder brother of the son.

However, at some point, that pure family affection changed in his heart and became an unspeakable affection.

"I remember."

I will never forget that on that night full of stars, Shizi stretched out his fat little hand from the roof to him under the tile, and said, "Come, come up, watch the stars with me for a while."

If at that time, he had been braver and dared to speak out what was in his heart, he would have said something like this: "Xue Muji, you are the brightest and most dazzling star in my eyes."

Xue Muji clasped his hands to his ears, barking like a dog, woof woof. "What you said counts. If you don't count, it's a puppy."

Hearing Xue Mu's familiar voice of slapstick, he raised his eyes, met those bright pupils, and tightly clasped the scabbard of Pan Yunjian with his right hand.

He came back just now, stroked the sword, and thought a lot.

He was inexplicably angry and Xue Muji deliberately drove him away. In front of the regent, he was the one who was reckless.For the first time in his life, he violated the expectations of the son, and almost brought troubles to the son and his family.

So what about calculating, he had promised Xue Muji early on that he would do whatever he wanted.

Xue Muji wanted him to leave, so he left, Xue Muji wanted him to go to Yongdu, so he went to Yongdu.Because that was Xue Muji's hope.

"I remember." He repeated to himself, he remembered.Always be on the side of your hopes.

"Brother, I hope you will go to Yongdu, and I hope you will be Lu Yu's adoptive son. I hope that my brother will become the pride of Pingjiang Hou Mansion, and my pride."

The light wind blew the window sash, Xue Muji put his legs on the outside, put his arms on the window sill, leaned half of his body in, approached Xue Huaijiu's ear, and continued, "When my brother becomes famous in the future, Remember to come back to Pingjiang to visit me often, and remember to come back and tell me if you encounter any difficult things that cannot be solved. I don’t care what your last name is, as long as I’m here, Pingjiang Hou’s Mansion is your home, and it will always be. "

Leaning forward suddenly, Xue Muji felt someone hug his waist, and the supporting arm suddenly lost strength, and his cold lips pressed against a softer but warm lip.

Woo... woo... woo... can't breathe.

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The kissing scene is in the next chapter... da da da...